Explain the idea of an installation An installation sculpture is a piece of artwork that takes up a room or an area of a room. People can observe the installation piece by looking around and seeing all angles of it. What do you think of the finished product? I think that the whole class did a good job on working together to make this installation piece but after a week and seeing it during lunch i have noticed that the "leaves" are falling off so i think we could have glued it on better but other than that i think it looks good. How would you have changed it if it was your personal project verses a group project? I would have split the tree into four different sides for each season so every side would be different according to the season its on. Who did what in your group? Explain each person's role including your own. One person was in charge of making the outline and structure of the tree because he was really good at doing stuff like that while the rest of use cut out and put things together. I personally helped cut out the tree, put it together, and I also made some flowers for the tree and helped make the swing that I think went missing because its not there anymore.
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I found that using hot glue to connect the pieces was the most successful way to glue the pieces together. Since the front of the stryogami was heavier than the back of it I made a small stand to support it. Making the stand was a successful step because it kept the styrogami from falling back because of the weight. I also mixed paints together to make some leaf colors that had fallen from the "tree". I found that using the plastic plate gave the best results when making the base, back, and top for the styrogami. When making the "leaves" one thing I found helpful was using a small tip paint brush to help make the small leaf shapes. An obstacle I faced when making this was trying to outline the shape of a tree. I found this difficult because if you pushed too hard with your pencil it punctured the cup and you would just have to roll with it. Since the cup is curved as well it made outlining the tree a little harder too. But even though outlining the tree shape was hard another obstacle I tackled was trying to cut it out because if your tried cutting the tree out too fast with the x-acto knife it wouldn't give you a clean line. Other than outlining and cutting the tree out there were no other difficulties in making the styrogami. The first thing that i did was help make the base of the tree ( I don't have a picture sorry ) and I then moved on to making the outline of the tree seen on the left. My job was to cut off the excess cardboard and create the outline of the tree . The only real struggle to doing this is that the box cutter was very dull so i had trouble cutting off the sides so it took me a while to get it done. But at the end I finally got it done got rid of the excess cardboard on my side of the tree. In this picture I was in the beginning process of cutting out the roots for the tree. I first began by measuring the height of part of the tree root. After that i began to outline the shape of the root but i tried made it look as authentic as possible. To cut out the tree root i used an X- acto and also a box cutter because the X-acto knife was sharper than the box cutter. Once i finished cutting the root out i got some brown tape and taped it to the tree which was hard at first but i got the hang of it. The most difficult part to doing this was trying to get the outline cut out because of the way it was shaped. After my group and I were done assembling the tree some of them started to work on foliage and I worked on cutting out leaves and painting them. To do this all I did was draw out leave shapes and cut them out with an X-acto knife. Once I got the desired number of leaves cut out i decided to paint them a light green so they would look natural. I just mixed both yellow and blue together to make this color for the leaves. There wasn't really a hard part about doing this process because for the most part it was easy. For the most part this project has been fun to do even though it is time consuming. I think that the tree is coming out nicely and i expect for it to look even better when groups are done putting on the bark. I think the most difficult part about making this tree was trying to figure how to make it because when we were first assigned the project we started out by stacking boxes but we found a better solution to make it easier to make the tree. Another hard part of this project was having to cut out the tree on thick cardboard that took forever to cut out. Once we finished cutting the things necessary out everything began to come together.
Daniela forti "jelyfish" sculpturesDaniela Forti is a Italian artist who is well known for her dripping glass sculptures that resembles the look of a jellyfish. To make these fascinating sculptures Daniela uses a process called vetrofusione which melts the glass and allows her to hand mold the pieces. Daniela Forti's work is really inspiring to me because it makes me want to create something as unique as her someday. What drew me into her work so much was how unique her worked is and the technique that she uses. It just seems different from what pops up into my mind when I think of sculptures. I also loved how satisfying her art is to look at because it really does remind me of a jellyfish because of the drips of glass hanging and I just think that its really amazing how she incorporated color into a very simplistic looking sculpture that is actually harder to do than imagined. To purchase some of her artwork you can visit https://artemest.com/artisans/daniela-forti
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